Removed dash to run some wires for new KC Hilites. Re-installed and all worked good. Sons pulled back off a couple times to replace a stereo and nw we have no dash lights. Blinkers and low gas lights work. Any suggestions?

BTW - have used this forum for years and never had to post. Wealth of information here. Thanks for all your posts.

Although I tested yesterday and lights worked, still unable to get the instrum panel to light up. Pulled off dash and reinstalled, pulled out stereo. If I pull the light switch partially out - just before parking lights turn on - I get dash lights. All the way out - no go. Thinking ground or bad rheostat.

My first guess would be a bad ground. Not totally sure about that though.

When I pulled my dash off a while back I accidentally turned the headlight switch to the right dimming my dash lights nearly all the way. In all the years of owning my Jeep I had never realized that it even had a way to dim the lights. I spent days trying to figure out the problem only to find I twisted the dimmer down. Sorry don't mean to hijack just thought it was kinda funny.

Read through some posts and it seems you're not the only one to go through that Sort of like when I installed the KC Hilites and buttoned it up - one light didn't work. Helps if you connect all the quick connects

I've found a good quality switch for under $20. I'll try that and post results. But if anyone else has any ideas - feel free to share.

After discovering that the rear running lights weren't working (front running and all blinkers worked - didn't think about checking rear running), my younger son could wait to research further and pulled the #1 fuse. It was fried. Replace the fuse and everything works.

Bad news? Well we pulled the dash back off and did all kinds of troubleshooting and online searching - only to find out it was a fuse! We had checked one fuse but not the one that counted!

Oh well - valuable lesson learned. And my son got the glory, so he goes to bed tonight with a feeling of accomplishment.